screen rotation

Asked by ed chapman

Computer asus g74sx
NVDIA Device
NV-Controll Version 1.28
Serrver Version 1.11.3
Driver Version 304.60

kubuntu 12.04

after the Latest update x tool taken 21 OCT 2012

Display final intialized rotated 90 degrees to the right.
From system menu, selected no rotation does not work..
manually doing a xrandr -o left works to correct the problem, and can be changed from the system display menu from then on until the next logout of x display and log back in. returns 90 to the right, and will cannot be corrected from the system display menu until the manual xrandr -o left if made manual, then the system display menu works in any direction.

Problem showed itself after the last update taken 21 OCT 2012..

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
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I suggest you to report a but.

Close this question a solved or convert it to a bug.

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Just to clarify, running:

xrandr -o left

Yourself, make it work?

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ed chapman (srini-durand) said :
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yes, it works fine after the xrandr -o left command or xrandr --output LVDS-0 --rotate normal
either works fine. And from then on, it is possible to rotate from the System Display menu.

Prior to that, changing the rotation factor in the System Display has not effect, it simply reverst back after the apply.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Then run the startup application manager and add the command to the startup.

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ed chapman (srini-durand) said :
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yup first thing I tried, and this part makes not sense to me. Tried it both ways, startup
and also made a shell script and placed it Autostart.

It runs the command, but then switches after that somehow. So, and I know this sounds crazy, but somehow this is what is happening: Comes up, fine, can run the script fine. The something graps the display and rotates it.. so something grabs it after
the start up sequence.

OK.. maybe this may shed even more light on this...
In my start up i have a ssh-add < /dev/null
make sense, because I want to have it somewhere OK?.. now follow this...
it comes up correct at this time rotation is fine OK.. now sometime maybe a second or 2 or while I am typeing in my
passphrase the screen is grabbed and rotates this nonse occurs.

So it is not as simple as wedging in a fix in the start up, somehow something sneeks in and does this.. or some snooping deal takes over or something I always though I knew about startup and init but I was terribly wrong.. even tryied this
a brand new user... OK.. user "fred flintstone" and logged in as him and still rotates.. so nothing at the user level..
thought maybe a permission on the saving of system menu stuff but no, Fredflintstone rotated too.

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